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Show 1868.] ON THE AMERICAN RALLID^. 465 Fig. 6. Head-shield of Fulica ardesiaca. Tschudi's F. ardesiaca. It turns out, as we had anticipated, to be the same as F. chilensis, Gay; and the species must therefore be called F. ardesiaca, Tschudi's name having the priority. This is quite as well, since, as we have already stated (I. s. c. p. 1 77), it is very doubtful whether this Coot ever occurs in Chili, the only authority for its so doing being Gay's untrustworthy assertion. 4. FULICA ARMILLATA. Focha de ligas roxas, Azara, Apunt. iii. p. 474. no. 448. Fulica armillata, Vieill. N . D. xii. p. 47, et E. M . p. 343 ; Hartl. Ind. Azar. p. 28 et J. f. O. 1853, Extra-H. p. 82 ; Burm. Syst. Ueb. iii. p. 390 ; La Plata-Reise, ii. p. 505. Fulica chilensis, Landb. Wiegm. Arch. 1862, p. 221. Fulica chilensis, Schlegel, Mus. des P.-B. Ralli, p. 63 (?). Fulica frontata, G. R. Gray in Mus. Brit. Fulica gallinuloides, King, Zool. Journ. iv. p. 96(?). Nigricanti-schistacea, capite toto obscuriore: flexura alari et re-migis externi margine albis: crisso albo, plumis quibusdam me-dialibus albis: rostro flavo maculis basalibus rubris: clypeo frontali magno, ovali, flavo, rubro marginato : pedibus maximis, flavicanti-olivaceis, tibiarum parte ima et tarsis antice ruberrimis long, tota 16*5, alee 7*8, caudee 2*0, rostri a rictu 1*4, tarsi 2-8, dig. med. cum ungue 4*0. Hab. South-east Brazil, St. Catharina (Burm.) ; Paraguay (Bon-pland, Azara) ; Patagonia (D'Orb.) ; Chili (Landbeck). Mus. Brit., Derb. |
